Thanks TooCooL4! These days I speak a bit of everything, Mac, Windows, Linux, IOS and Android. Even a bit of Google. Think you have to be multilingual! Funny though how I can never find a cable when I need a specific one, it's like they all run off and hide....
I too use both Mac and Windows at home and i use to use both at work. For phones i just use Windows phone Lumia 950, yes i know Windows phone is dead but i don't like Apple telling me what i can or cannot do and Google has their nose in everything.
I gave up on iPhones a couple of years ago, got tired of not being able to expand the built in memory. Picked up an LG G5 mainly because of the micro SD slot and dual lens camera which gives my big DSLR kit a run for it's money.
I've never gone the iPhone route, always used other phones. I tend to always have a separate small digital camera in my bag anyway, but in general i still use film. Love B&W i use Canon EOS 1N and Eos iV, no phone camera is going to come close to that.
I have a feeling your bench is similar to 1/2 the members here Niteshooter, except for the computers. They are just too big for me in my limited space, it looks like you might do some repair work?
Yup things got a bit out of control on my bench. At work we tended to throw away older tech, much of it working fine, just old so I would save it from the dump. Now I have a pretty complete collection of old computers, and other electronic oddities. And yes computers take up huge amounts of space! I also collected/saved the old software since operating systems have evolved/grown considerably which comes in handy since a lot of times you might get a computer but not the software. I also have a Next computer, a number of Cobalts (Qubes and Servers) and some funky coloured Silicon Graphics workstations. I do a fair bit of computer repair/troubleshooting but more as a hobby now then work. Audio has also always been an interest had a friend who owned a repair depot and helped him out. Also a friend of a close friend who's owned a stereo shop for 40+ years here in Toronto.
I completely understand the love for vintage tech, as a young boy I was logging onto the local university's VAX and DEC Computers with a terminal and a phone port and a box of thermal paper. Our group of elementary boys used to love to walk around the university, mostly at night, and we eventually found the building where the two computers were housed in the basement behind a glass wall. There was something magical about that early version of the internet. Have you been to the boombox prop shop up there? I haven't seen it posted in a couple years but that guy has a world class collection that he rents out and sometimes sells.
Yup, the ones I saved are all funky colours. Something odd for computers of the time, I also saved a few Cobalt Qubes and rack servers which were kind of funky as well. Weirdest web server in my collection is a Cisco server that ran everything off of a Zip drive.
Way back in high school we used to go down to the U of T computer centre and run our homework on their mainframe. Back then nobody checked id's, one friend even had a locker in the building. It was better then running our stuff through the high school system, all our programs were written on bubble cards, you took a pencil and marked each bit of code. Was so much better to use a keypunch machine! I kept several sets of batch header cards for the various programming languages we could run on the U of T system and several big boxes of cards which we used to use to write out grocery lists on. In university before the internet I ran dialup BBS' from home, was kind of weird having multiple phone lines running into the house. Today it's so much simpler and faster! At work when we had to transmit photos when I first started I had to make a hard copy photograph and then attach it to a drum scanner that was hooked up to a phone line which then transmitted a series of pings over the phone line back to the office. Took forever to send a photo and if there was a hit on the line you started over. Then we got laptops and modems, still remember the sound of the hardware handshakes!
I also shot with EOS 1ns and 1V's, I stopped shooting film when we finally went all digital at work and shut down the darkroom which was a shame though some of the gear I inherited. I have a buddy who is/was setting up a darkroom where he teaches so I sent him all of my gear when I sold the building I had my darkroom in last summer. Prior to switching over to EOS my working kit were F1's until the T90s came out and then I switched to a pair of them in my working kit. You could drive nails with the F1's and when you put the motor drive and Servo EE finder it was a pretty hefty rig. Film really forces you to think out each image which I miss with digital. Now you spray and chimp. But film is starting to make a comeback, even some types of Polaroid films are being reintroduced by the Impossible Project granted they want some pretty high prices for some cameras which you can still find in thrift shops for next to nothing.
This pictures reminds me @Cassette2go 's pictures, millions of stuff in one frame. Can you please share some pictures of your walkman collection?
The guy's on "American Pickers" said it best, the guys with the stuff and the mess are the most interesting, the stories, the passion, the enthusiasm......
Next week reply to this again as I will be off that week as there is no school and no driving children to school and then I will have plenty of time to take pictures, ok?
Nice collection Niteshooter. I still like to shoot film, but i don't go into the darkroom anymore i just put them in for processing. I miss the darkroom.
Yes working in the darkroom made photography a lot more magical. It's nice to see that the wet processes are making a comeback.
